VOCABULARY TEST

Testers Name: Mberra AHN

Name:

Level: Upper-Intermediate

Number:

Duration: 20 min.

Class:

Total Points: 25
A. Answer the questions. Give short answers. (3X1=3)
1. What does the leading role mean? ..
2. What do painters do? ..
3. Are paintings shown in the exhibitions? ..
B. Choose the best answer. (4X1=4)
1. Julia
Roberts beauty didnt stop Pretty Woman becoming
the..
a. box score

b. box room

c. box office

a smash at

d. box number

2. A .. is a person who arranges how dancers should move during a

performance.
a. choreographer

b. conductor

c. composer

d. producer

3. She was approached for the .. in a Hollywood production to be

directed by Steven Spielberg.
a. active role
role

b. key role

c. poor role

d.

leading

4. I wouldnt expect like you understand my paintings.

a. a culture vulture

b. a philistine

c. an arty type d. an opera buf

C. Circle the close meaning of the underlined words. (4X1=4)

1. After the game, people raved about Rafael Nadals performance.
a. enthused

b. discussed

c. criticized

d. commented

2. Philip Seymour Hofman blows them away with a scene-stealing black comic turn
as Dickies awful preppie buddy.
a. makes them angry.

b. makes them happy

c. makes them surprised

d. makes them fearful

3. Airline staf must be courteous at all times, even passengers are not.
a. arrogant

b. polite

c. talkative

d. outgoing

4. For goodness sake, Peter, why dont you just let yourself go for once ?
a. express your feelings

b. behave in a modest way

c. behave in an angry way

d. relax completely and enjoy yourself

D. Write the correct forms of the words. If it needs, add a prefix or suffix; if it
doesnt, put an X . (4X1=4)
1. Beethoven has been recognized as one of the greatest .................... (compose) of
all time.
2. Have you ever heard a live ....................(perform) of Madonna ?
3. After a long run in the band The Beatles, Paul McCartney had a .................. (success)
solo career.
4. It also spurred an outpouring of spurious books and .....................
films.

( sensation)

E. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words. Use only one word for each
blank. (5X2=10)
Alan Frances
The greatest influence on my way of thinking as a painter came when I
took ............ (1) in a famous exhibition called 'Freeze' when I was a student at
college. That college was a dream for .................. (2) people; it was the only place in
the art world that didn't stipulate which medium you had to work in. All the other
schools ................... (3) you into categories, such as sculpture and painting. Art
practice isn't confined by these old barriers and techniques anymore. I don't think
'Freeze' was ground-breaking in ................ (4) of the actual work, but there was a
massive energy around it. We weren't trying to ..................... (5) the attention of the
galleries - it was more a case of 'we don't need them, we can do it anyway'.

ANSWER KEY
PART A
1. The most important role in a play, film or movie.
2. They paint pictures .
3. Yes, they are shown in the exhibitions.

PART D
1. composers

PART E
1. part

2. performance
3. successful
4. sensational

2. creative
3. divided
4. terms
5. attract